There are no "neutral" words to describe the fighters in Yugoslavia, using the same term to describe Tito's and Mihailovic's forces would be...
Could not find any figures from the Yougoslav side for the spring 1942 period, the later Neretva and Sutjeska battles get most of the attention....
Totally agree resistance was justified, the Italian army may have been a bit less bad than the Germans but were still invaders. .... continuing...
Found this account on 1942 operations on Croatia that I believe is interesting, it highlights how, even in 1942 counterinsurgency in the former...
Hi Tamino, why do you say "deliberation" instead of "liberation" ? might be my English but that sound they were involved in debates not fighting....
If we take it as "most significant" the Stuka and the Ju 52 take the prize with the Me 109 close behind for it's role in France, the first two...
I would agree a lot of the rank and file were non political, but unless completely ingenuous, they knew what Tito's ideology was, but my post was...
It's not a lack of design capability, or reluctance of adopting foreign designs (as long as you didn't have to pay royalties). The Reggiane...
Did the US help the partisans ? would require a pretty long answer, the short one is yes they helped "some" partisans, though I believe the...
As far as I know the two "longest hit" competitors are HMS Warspite against Cesare and Sharnhorst against HMS Glorious, what hit are you referring...
The Japanese lost in 1939 out of sheer arrogance, they did exactly the same mistake Hitler did later, they attacked USSR forces with insufficient...
The roll is allregedly taken from Tone and sometimes the ship was identified as USS Pope. Hard to do with this detail...
Downplaying the loss of 20% of oil production due to the occupation of the oilfields is ridiculous, the allied air forces would have been...
Most museum ships operate at a loss, I'm currently reading about the Russian Aurora (or Avrora if you want the Russian spelling), that's possibly...
Esprit the corps was there, realistic training a bit less, especially pre-war, according to most info I have and some talks with RM veterans....
There is an empirical rule in economics known as the "law of diminishing returns", it shows that adding a single factor to a process will not...
You can make statistics tell whatever you want with a little effort on picking the right ones. I could come with different numbers showing the...
I was thinking of cruiser guns, the battleships were never involved in night actions like the cruisers were or had trained for night combat, which...
The frogmen are really "special forces" so that model will not scale up in any way. The pre armistice X MAS flotilla contained an large number of...
When someone titles a thread "casino" which in Italian stands for "big mess" it's no surprise keyboards start acting strangely, other possible...
